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fandomhigh2017-09-20 07:49 am
era_two_triangle) wrote in fandomhigh2017-09-20 07:49 am
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Library, Wednesday
Peridot had been planning on bringing her notes in from Jenkins' class today in order to go through the library to research some of the terminology he'd used during whatever spare time she had.
As the day progressed, it became fairly clear that Peridot wasn't going to have spare time. A few of the books had taken to running down the aisles, and then a few more, and before Peridot could rein in the first few runners it had spiralled out of control into a whole book stampede.
She might have gotten trampled.
It wasn't pretty.
[OOC: Open! Mind the books!]
As the day progressed, it became fairly clear that Peridot wasn't going to have spare time. A few of the books had taken to running down the aisles, and then a few more, and before Peridot could rein in the first few runners it had spiralled out of control into a whole book stampede.
She might have gotten trampled.
It wasn't pretty.
[OOC: Open! Mind the books!]
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Peridot wasn't about to disregard a curse out of hand, though she generally accepted that they didn't necessarily have the mystical origins that people tended to attribute to them. Then again, many still did. It was an interesting thought.
"Gems aren't born, the way you organic beings are," she pointed out. "We're made, in... big gardens, basically. For specific purposes. Peridots are made to perform scientific study, to build machines, and to run the Kindergartens we're made in. Without technology, I wouldn't have had a reason to exist in the first place."
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She thought about the machines for a moment, who all seemed to have a purpose of their own.
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Not that she was bragging or anything.
"In the same way that Rubies are better suited to serve as foot soldiers, and Lapis Lazuli are made for terraforming new worlds. Different Gems... different functions."
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"Why?" she finally asked.
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"Why... do we have different functions?"
Peridot blinked a little.
"Why... not? You wouldn't send a..." She paused a moment, trying to think of two Earth professions for an example. "... A plumber in to do surgery, right?"
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Peridot hesitated another moment more. She knew that about people, but she had never encountered a human who was confused by the concept of being made with a purpose before.
Usually they were just horrified.
"Then..." She sighed. "Think of us like... components in a machine. There are functions they serve, so that the whole unit can operate at peak efficiency. We aren't born the same way humans are, either. We always exist to full our purpose, though we can be diverted away from it. It... takes some doing."
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She was doing both, more than jut being confused.
"What you're describing sounds like a machine all right," she said. "But you don't act like one."
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She spread her hands a little.
"But I'm not human, either."
This was a pretty interesting semester for small existential crises, for Peridot. Between this and Breq asking if she was artificial...
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Not that she was trying to simplify it or anything, but with the conversations Peridot had had with various people this semester, it could really go either way.
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"It might be a case of organic versus inorganic life," she offered. "Not to be confused with inorganic versus machine... I was made with a purpose, but I had the ability to choose to stray from it. To decide I didn't like being part of the system I was created to slot into. I can function without my society, and my society can function without me."
She paced around a little.
"My existence would have elements of both, of my inorganic nature, but also..." She shrugged. "Of life."
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